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Nicole's Story

Nicole wasn't getting the right support for her PTSD until a friend invited her to meet Jesus at a school lunch club

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Nicole's Story

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Nicole wasn't getting the right support for her PTSD until a friend invited her to meet Jesus at a school lunch club

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I really was a shell of the person I am now.

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My name's Nicole and this is my story.

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So, at about four years old

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my mum left my dad with me and my little brother.

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It was just really a time

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of a lot of trauma in my life.

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We were in two fires

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and then my nextdoor neighbour got stabbed.

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I would have flashbacks to the fire

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where I would be in total darkness and so frightened,

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and I just remember feeling really helpless

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at a really young age.

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And, as a family, it did really break us.

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So ten years ago

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trauma wasn't really something

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that young girls were known to experience;

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it was soldiers,

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it was people much older than me.

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I just wasn't really getting the help that I needed.

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And I made friends with a girl who was a Christian.

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She encouraged me to come to

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the Scripture Union club that our school ran,

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then I heard the gospel for the first time.

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I heard the good news.

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I heard about a God who was loving and who loved me,

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and who made me, and who had a plan for my life,

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and a purpose for it.

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I wanted to know more about that God

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and I prayed, I was like,

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"If you're real, Lord, I really want to know you

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"and I want to follow you,

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"and I want to accept you as my Saviour."

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And I just remember this overwhelming peace

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just feeling like, actually,

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God was just present with me there,

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and I don't think that feeling's ever left me.

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I decided that, actually, I was ready to be baptised.

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I feel like, at that point,

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I would say I was healed from

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the trauma that no doctor, no counsellor,

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no psychologist had been able to heal.

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My life wasn't bound by trauma anymore,

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my life wasn't bound by the past either,

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and I really had a new life.

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I am extremely passionate about politics.

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I felt like a lot of the politicians

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weren't really reflective of me

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and didn't represent my experience in life.

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And, as a young female Christian,

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I'd like to try and

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just be a voice in politics.

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Sometimes I feel like I don't speak very eloquently,

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or I get my words mumbled up,

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but I don't want that to stop me

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because I know that God's at work through your words

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and that, actually, He wants you to share

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what He's done in your life.

October 2019
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Topics
Personal evangelism
University students
Young adults
Youth
Schools
Apologetics

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